ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13357, 22 December 1906, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

United Press Association— By^ Electric

Telegraph'.— Oopyrigtt. , Melbourne, Decomb^c ,21. On the v.oyago of;'thei steamer Hy- '

mefctus from Calcutta, the chief o^ffi- i cer, Mr Frog'gart/ while sitpeiuntending. fumigation, became enveloped in flames/ and succumbed to his ' injuries. ' • P#»r Proao A.eß<^l«tlOll. Auckland, December 21. A' teklgram received "tkxlhy shows that the infant child of Mr Stanloy Brown, of Mangaiti, near Te Aroha, was drcwaaed in a well yesterday. Dunedin, Deaeawber 21. , A young man named J-a-mes F«rguson was 'inUed at Claren'cbn this afternoon by a fall nof earth. Mastertiony Daceaivber, 21 . •Charles Maibey, 63 years, who is alleged to have been \ assaulted by a Maori named 'Ropoatma last Saturday * ' died this eveniinfg. The doctor ■says the' death of Mabey was due to laceratiion' of the> brain and infiamma'tkHi of tlhe lungs. Christohur'eh, 'December 21. Al cJbild' namied Rita Black, aged 16 months, fell into a tub- of water • this afternioon. and was drowned. Wellington, iDecemHer^ 21.'' TKe Coroner, dn summinig. up to the ' jury at the inscfuest on. Mrs K-ensioig-ton, said that en tbe occasion of ■this accident ' the - ladies siad not tho jslightes-t iintiimation that anything would cross -tifoeir path. To him it appeared that in such a case, when, a vehicle came suddenly round a corner and dfd damage, there was something • blameworthy in the ia?tion of the person driving, the car. So far> as he could make out, when thte ladies first eafw the oar eo-min'g, dt couJd not 1 have boen more th-an 25ft 'from thorn. ti .so; thiey ; had just four seconds to get out .of the way. It scenTed to him. tha-t' it wag great rashness to turn tfce v .c6?OTel < ' at 12 or, 15 'miles an jbour. Tlce jury returned <a verdict of acoidenial , death 1 , with no -Wafme' attach-ab-.e to the driver of the* eagme.- The jury tendered their sincere sympathy with the family.' -"'""• '-

| The Coroner said he was 'bounfd to accept tbe.verdi^t'^btrt he wishtedT to .say; thaft h ; e dasagreed vri^K it. \ 1 , Feildine:,' Deee^jber 22. . . iHcnry G dodie, an old ideoi'tiiy; gI ths C'plyion district,- aged 62'ycai's,drop--ped' dead at 6.30 ihis.^mjovnSti^ on the rqam rload near a store. A doctor eer'tiVJed 'tKai*=?leath A wiis- r duet6 'heart dis-

ease. . Hdwera^. Deoebnfi^r .22.- . ; -JAt. an -inquest conoerriing tfo.dcath of W. Tlvomiison; wifd cK<^ from tho "effects "of a" raiKray acoidenf" at Normanby on -Monday, a verdict of ac- • 'cidcntal dentfr was .rgtbrned liablanrQ bemg*' attitoftscble to" "anyone. ' -,